Singing Quotes
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I am glad that my weight never affected my singing career, but other than this, I faced a lot problems: like, I was unable to talk for 20 minutes after coming down from the stage after my shows. I got very tired because of my fatness.
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If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.
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There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.
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Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.
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I fell in love. Absolutely. He was already on the show. He was singing all over New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I fell for him.
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I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
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When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.
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All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.
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I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.
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Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.
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I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn...
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I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.
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First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows.
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When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.
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I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
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And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
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All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.
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I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
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Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.
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When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.
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When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
